Texas Mexican Railway Co. v. Scott

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was originally instituted by J. P. Nelson and others against the Texas Mexican Bailway Company, but the rights of all parties plaintiff having subsequently been acquired by James F. Scott, the suit was prosecuted in his name alone. The case was submitted to the court on an agreed statement of facts, approved by the court under article 1293 of Bevised Statutes of 1895, the controversy being an ordinary suit of trespass to try title to ten sections of land in Hidalgo County, described in the agreed statement by metes and bounds.

On December 24, 1908, the court…